The aim of the Poor Laws was always to punish the poor. By the start of the 20th century that policy was beginning to erode. But it took working class resistance to finish them off.
THE SCOTTISH TUC in Dundee in April saw the National Union of Mineworkers, ASLEF, Community, USDAW and GMB, with help from CWU and Musicians’ Union delegates, Work Together and United with Labour, organising a standing-room-only fringe event – featuring powerful calls for working class unity.
Britain’s coal industry is to be reduced to one deep pit and a handful of opencast mines. While the government drags its feet and the opposition remains silent, it falls to organised labour to put energy security on the agenda…
The EU-US free trade agreement, known as TTIP, is coming under increasing pressure as more and more people start to realise what it entails. Top of the list of concerns is the provision for Investor State Dispute Settlement, or ISDS.
Ambulance workers’ unions are dusting off their plans for a ballot on industrial action in England after negotiations over sick pay have reached an impasse.
The aerospace industry is a jewel in the crown of our high-tech manufacturing and a big source of skilled jobs. But there are clouds on the horizon.
On the military side, Rolls-Royce has a $49 million contract to establish an engine maintenenace facility at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
WARNING: If what follows sounds complicated, it’s because it is. The government has made its loans so complex that most students don’t really know what they are signing up for.
1 October 2013
It’s not generally known, but students from the European Union are eligible for student loans on the same basis as students from Britain.
For many of today’s students a university place has become the first step on a ladder of debt that will be with them for the whole of their working lives.
Next year’s referendum can become an opportunity for the British working class to rebuild and revitalise our country...
The Parliamentary parties have often promised a referendum but have always broken their promises, because they represent capitalism and capitalists are afraid to hear the views of the working class.
